This month’s Exercise may not seem that difficult, especially given the variety of grid challenges and dimensional array lessons I’ve posted on this blog. Obviously, you need a nested loop. The tough part, however, is generating the grid of alternating colors.
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The challenge for this month’s Exercise is to output the first 100 palindromic numbers, which are integers that reflect the same digits on either side. Rather than devise a complex mathematical equation to determine these values, I cheated.
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I hope this month’s Exercise didn’t terrify you. I remember seeing The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad when I was a kid. The cyclops bothered me so much I asked my mom questions about him for a month.
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I don’t believe one definitive solution exists for this month’s Exercise: Output a string of upper- and lowercase letters. No, the challenge is more to discover different insights a coder has to a specific problem.
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Can you write your own left-pad function in C? Would you get so angry that you’d pull it from the Jenga-tower NPM and bring the Internet to its knees? I hope your answer Yes to the first question and No to the second, because your task for this month’s Exercise is to write that function.
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To code a simulated elevator ride you must know the floor requests, up and down. This is the challenge given for this month’s Exercise, which can either drive you nuts or delight you depending on how you craft your solution.
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Cleaving a decimal value into its integer and fractional portions is a neat trick, one that relies upon C natural capability to thwack off the decimal portion of a float when it’s recast as an integer. Knowing about this conversion makes solving this month’s Exercise a whole lot easier.
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I was blown away by the elegance and simplicity of the Babylonian Method to calculate a square root, which is the topic of this month’s Exercise. I only hope that my solution lives up the challenge, lest I suffer the fate of the Assyrians.
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This month’s Exercise both terrified and enticed me. Yes, I code these solutions myself after I think up the challenges. No cheating here! This particular puzzle was more fun than I imagined, but also required a lot of mental work.
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The challenge for this month’s Exercise is to write a microwave oven input routine: The user types in a given number of seconds and your program translates the value into the proper number of hours, minutes, and seconds. This type of problem may sound familiar.
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